Christian Hernandez
Digital Media
Learning to Look
Photograph Title: Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Digital, Film, or Other:Canon 1DS M2, a digital Hasselblad and a Mamiya 645.
Date Taken: 2016
Additional Information: born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. She studied art at San Francisco Art Institute.
VALUE - The darkest tone is her shirt and the lightest is her face.
SPACE- Overlapping objects do create a sense of space. The space is deep.
SHAPE- There are geometric shapes. There are positive shapes, such as objects.
LINE- Their are thick, thin, and straight lines.
COLOR- I see the color of her clothes and skin.
TEXTURE- There is no texture in this photograph.
FOCUS- The whole photo is clearly focused. There are no parts out of focus.
LIGHT AND SHADOW- The light seems to be artificial, harsh lighting. The direction of the light is backlighting. The shadow is mostly in her clothes. They created a strong contrast. The photographer did not use light patterns.
ANGLE- The vantage point of right in front. The image was taken in the front view. The angle affects the photograph of how she looks and lighting.
I think the photograph is about her journey as a photographer. It means what she went through and the process of her photographing career. I know the cause of the title and the article The New York Times did on this photograph. I would describe this photo as lost in thought, concern, but at the place that means the most to her.
I would like to emulate Annie Leibovitz’s use of color, focus, and value. The reason I would like to emulate each of these elements is to show the meaning and story of the photo.
Learning to Emulate
Four style elements that I incorporated into my own photography include value, color, mood, and texture. I incorporated value and color by wearing clothes with different types of shades and tones. Leibovitz has a happy and calm mood in her picture but I wanted to have a different type of mood. I wanted my mood to display gloomy, serious, and careless. I feel that the texture of the ground helped with displaying my mood. Obstacles I faced in completing the project included burning a photo in my hand. I overcame these obstacles by waiting for the wind to stop so the photo could burn. Examining a famous photographer pushed and evolved my own photography by finding my true identity and what type of photographer I want to be. I think my photography has grown over the past few years because I've expanded my ideas and I can identify what elements go into different kinds of photos.
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